Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 09:25:25 -0700, > "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" <wolfgang.rupprecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> If flash is now very unsafe, is there a working alternative yet? Is > > Adobe's flash player has been unsafe for a very long time and I don't expect > that to change anytime soon. Yea. This latest f-up finally drove the point home for me. It was time to bite the bullet and do an "rm $(locate libflashplayer.so)" and not look back. > There are a few open source flash players available. They seem to be buggy > and don't support the latest version of flash very well. Also for Fedora, > h264 is patented and prevents support of that codec (commonly used in > flash) in the distro. Though people in some areas of the world can use > the codec support from RPMFusion. I do recall using mplayer to play youtube *.flv videos at one point but it was a real pain in the neck to dig the obfusciated video url out of the javascript in order to download the *.flv file. I'm hoping that there already is some flash plugin that can spawn a safer external player to play the videos. From a security standpoint I imagine an external player should be quite a bit safer since it can be sandboxed with a powerless UID and/or selinux to have just enough permission to open a window and read the one video file. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
